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sURVEILLANCE IN THE UK

The Animal Health Trust runs a surveillance scheme for equine influenza in the UK. We have set up a Surveillance Scheme, which has participants from equine veterinary practices throughout the UK, to encourage submission of nasal swab and blood samples from horses with suspected flu.

These samples are vitally important for us to find out where and how frequently outbreaks of flu are occurring, we can also use them to monitor any changes that occur in viruses circulating in the UK.

We work together with many other collaborators in Europe, the USA, Japan and India and support other laboratories that carry out this type of work. The information that is collected every year is used to select suitable vaccine strains for recommendation to vaccine manufacturers click here for more information.

The surveillance scheme is funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board, and is free for any veterinary practice to join. Members of the scheme can send in samples for diagnosis, free of charge. They are also notified of any outbreaks of influenza in their area. If you would like to tell your vet about this scheme, please contact us.

The Animal Health Trust is a veterinary charity, based in Suffolk, which offers clinical referral services and diagnostic testing for horses, dogs and cats in East Anglia, across the UK and internationally. Through its research programmes it develops new diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines to help thousands of animals.